Priesmeier, Christoph; Koester, Gerrit B. - 2012
: Fiscal sustainability and Wagner's law of an increasing state activity. In this paper, we argue that these two relationships … should be analyzed simultaneously and not separately. We show how Wagner's law might influence fiscal sustainability and how … and GDP. For Germany, we find strong evidence for Wagner's law throughout the whole period analyzed (1960-2007), while our …